When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
I just like cliches. I like tvtropes.com. It's pretty much my bible. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
I think it's high time we started questioning the old cliches like "Grunt big for Daddy." — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one." True, but they're not all full of shit.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
“When I hear what I have written out loud, the cliches hang in the air between us like bad breath” — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
“[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man? — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make… — Eric Braeden Copy Share Image
It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
“They're called cliches because they're true, you know. Besides, life is quite complicated enough...” — Elizabeth Noble Copy Share Image
A lot of motivational speakers - players, coaches, or whatever - they kind of speak in these kind of age-old mantras, or… — Jason Kelce Copy Share Image
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak. — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
“So we all know the cliché characters: the Irish cop, the prostitute with a heart of gold, the writer with a drinking… — Craig Hart Copy Share Image
“I know, I know…there’s something cliché about that. The heroine initially wanting to clobber a protagonist male, but later realizing that he’s… — Angela N. Blount Copy Share Image
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
“What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“You're not being fair," I said. "Life isn't fair." "Yeah, and no man is an island. Any other cliches you'd like to… — Cecily White Copy Share Image
“A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull.… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics” — Hany Ghoraba Copy Share Image
Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination. — Leonard Koppett Copy Share Image
People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I understand why sometimes people speak in cliches because sometimes there is no other way to describe something.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound… — Gary McCord Copy Share Image
You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image